Poetry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKBLMGNOPQR STUVKH VWIXYZA2B2C2D2E2M F2MG2| poetry is motion graceful | A |
| as a fawn | B |
| gentle as a teardrop | C |
| strong like the eye | D |
| finding peace in a crowded room | E |
| we poets tend to think | F |
| our words are golden | G |
| though emotion speaks too | H |
| loudly to be defined | I |
| by silence | J |
| sometimes after midnight or just before | K |
| the dawn | B |
| we sit typewriter in hand | L |
| pulling loneliness around us | M |
| forgetting our lovers or children | G |
| who are sleeping | N |
| ignoring the weary wariness | O |
| of our own logic | P |
| to compsoe a poem | Q |
| no one understands it | R |
| it never says 'love me' for poets are | S |
| beyond love | T |
| it never says 'accept me' for poems seke not | U |
| acceptance but controversy | V |
| it only says 'i am' and therefore | K |
| i concede that you are too | H |
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| a poem is pure energy | V |
| horizontally contained | W |
| between the mind | I |
| of the poet and the ear of the reader | X |
| if it does not sing discard the ear | Y |
| for poetry is song | Z |
| if it does not deligh discard | A2 |
| the heart for poetry is joy | B2 |
| if it does not inform then close | C2 |
| off the brain for it is dead | D2 |
| if it cannot heed the insistent message | E2 |
| that life is precious | M |
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| which is all we poets | F2 |
| wrapped in our loneliness | M |
| are trying to say | G2 |
Nikki Giovanni
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